The United States Post Office said Wednesday it will eliminate Saturday delivery of first-class mail beginning Aug. 5. A Fond du Lac Post Office official said he was caught off-guard by the news.

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Although there had been talk of drastic changes on the horizon for the United States Postal Service, Fond du Lac Postmaster Ed Graczyk was caught off guard by the official announcement Wednesday morning that the USPS would discontinue Saturday mail delivery.

"I didn't see this coming," said Graczyk, who passed along the news to about 80 postal employees at the Fond du Lac Post Office. "As far as how it will impact them, there's really not a lot to share at this point."

The new delivery schedule is set to launch the week of Aug. 5 and is expected to save the USPS about $2 billion a year. ...